Ancestors

Written by Jeff Starr on 2025-01-26 at 16:45

Brute force advertising 😂

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Toot

Written by N.A. Ferrell on 2025-01-26 at 18:23

@perishable It just occurred to me that something seems off about ads for am email marketing service being plastered all over a site for creating disposable email addresses.

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Descendants

Written by Jeff Starr on 2025-01-26 at 18:39

@nafnlj Yes, odd. Maybe the same company behind both..?

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Written by N.A. Ferrell on 2025-01-28 at 19:20

@perishable I took a quick look. I don't see any obvious sign they have the same owner, so It seems to me it was just bad ad placement after all. TempMail privacy policy (https://temp-mail.org/privacy-policy) -- fairly clear and concise on first glance -- lists all of thir third party ad vendors. I'll note in a fresh Mullvad Browser window with uBlock Origin enabled, I see buysellads as one of the scripts but none of the others. May be a way to see which one is loading for any specific ads.

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Written by Jeff Starr on 2025-01-28 at 19:31

@nafnlj Interesting, and looks maybe like the ads were targeted by Google. From the TempMail Privacy Policy:

"Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet."

I arrived at TempMail after searching for related email/service topics. My finger points more at the sheer volume of ads that were served, and all the same ad to boot.

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Written by N.A. Ferrell on 2025-01-31 at 18:44

@perishable Interesting find -- I'm no expert on Google Ads or online ads in general, but I can't imagine if I were paying for them that I would want to have all my ads plastered on one web page.

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Written by Jeff Starr on 2025-01-31 at 22:35

@nafnlj Agreed, it just looks desperate (and silly).

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